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Nadia of Canada Palestine Association and the Basil Al Araj Prisoners Committee with Tsleil-Waututh Cedar George-Parker (photo #1). On October 6th, in “Vancouver,” we confronted the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and their investments in weapons, war crimes/genocide, the climate crisis, fossil fuels, and its continued investment in companies that violate Indigenous sovereignty. CPPIB manages the $647-billion CPP. Every working and retired Canadian outside of Quebec is a member of the CPP. But despite being a Crown corporation, CPPIB has no Indigenous rights framework for its investment portfolio. In 2016, the CPP Investment Board (CPPIB) announced they had added human rights as a focus area for determining investment decisions. If human rights are an important consideration, how can CPPIB invest $54 billion of our pension funds in weapons manufacturers and other companies violating international law and complicit in the slaughter of people in Gaza? How does the CPP address the risk of complicity in investments tied to Israeli war crimes and illegal settlements, especially in light of ongoing legal proceedings against the Irish Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) for similar investments? Some investors, such as the Norwegian Government Pension Fund, developed investment exclusion criteria for companies that facilitate violations of international law in conflict-affected and high-risk regions. In 2021, responding to a letter signed by over 70 organizations and 5,600 individuals urging the CPPIB to divest from companies listed in the UN database as complicit in Israeli war crimes, CPP promised in writing to review the portfolio. A year later at the 2022 public meeting here in Vancouver it was pointed out CPPIB had not fulfilled that promise. In 2024, still this promise has not been fulfilled. And now, again in 2026. While CPPIB claims it’s committed to responsible investing, including a 2022 commitment to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, in 2026 CPPIB has tossed out it’s net-zero emissions commitment completely. Special thanks to Solidarity Notes Community Choir who contributes so much revolutionary energy! photos & videos @dcbreathes
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Honouring Our Grandmothers Healing Journey is returning to where we started. Following the wild salmon home, paddling in a canoe up river from Delta is an important part of the journey. There is no better way of feeling that spiritual, emotional and physical movement, than being with the lands and water with old and new friends. It warms our hearts seeing our new friends and family help where they can, by caringly taking a special sacred responsibility of ours forward in beautiful way. Walking, carrying and pulling a canoe to honour the Grandmothers, wild salmon, waters and ancestors with us is powerful. Thank you Michelle, Naomi and Jasmine your always the greatest help and support. Carly wow great heart to get this all together including your family. Skipper, Nathan thanks for your guidance and strength, we loved seeing your family there. Always by my side Granddaughter and Atheana thank you. Hugs Donna for your supprt. Nova thank you for painting the 13th Honouring Our Grandmothers Healing Journey chest very special its from a Musqueam person. Did you know we had exactly 13 people on the canoe with the chest. Love it thank you everyone. Remember dinner on September 27th at 5 in New Westminster you are so welcome to join us. #honouringourgrandmothershealingjourney #sacredrock #furtherwerise #delta #nlakapamuxart
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Petition e-7709 is open now to sign! Demand that the government halt dredging and seek proper Indigenous consent and complete cumulative affects assessments before moving forward! Link in bio!! Please share!!
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today! @retiredteachersdivestbc joined the Boycott Israeli Wines action led by @cpavancouver. End complicity in genocide! from @cpavancouver: “If the Canadian govt is serious about its intention to restrict trade on goods from Israeli settlements, it’s not difficult! You can start by banning Israeli wines now! Or is this announcement just “symbolic”, as some British diplomats have already reportedly said. As a solidarity group that has been active for almost two decades in boycotting/banning Israeli wines, we are not moved by all this hoopla over the Canadian government’s apparent declaration to “ban settlement goods”. Firstly, Minister Anand’s statement only “confirm(ed) their intention to introduce national and/or support European restrictions on trade in goods with settlements which are illegal under international law”. Secondly, if the timeline on labelling settlement wines correctly was any indication, we will be waiting a long time for any action from the federal government. After nine years, it is still unclear how, when and if these wines (apparently illegal even by longstanding Canadian policy) should be labelled as such. Even if the government followed through in a timely manner, this small measure is woefully inadequate in addressing the current war crimes and genocide being perpetrated by Israel. Many are questioning if all the fanfare around this is intended simply as a distraction from the ongoing complicity of many Western governments and Israel’s culpability.”
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Petition e-7709 is open now to sign! Demand that the government halt dredging and seek proper Indigenous consent and complete cumulative affects assessments before moving forward! Link in bio!! Please share!!
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Premier David Eby’s Constituency Office @davidebybc was closed when we arrived today! They must have heard we were coming! The latest message from the Teachers’ Pension Plan Board to retirees: “By investing for the long term, the plan helps fund businesses and infrastructure that contribute to job growth, tax revenue and economic stability across BC and Canada.” Our plan funds some of the world’s largest weapons companies, making us directly complicit in the slaughter, maiming, and starving of children and their families in Gaza and Lebanon. No mention, in their little update, that we have invested billions of $ in fossil fuels. The Maple media reports Carney may siphon off the wealth in Canadian pensions to fund his huge hike in military spending, ramping up our commitment to genocidal wars from the Salish Sea to Palestine. We Say No to public assets into risky LNG projects that no other investors will take on. We Say No to federal government investment of our pensions in “major projects” prioritized for fast-tracked approval and violating Indigenous Rights for free, prior and informed consent. We want our public pensions to support life! We want our public pension to support all lives! We will not stop We will not rest ‘til BCI divests! video #2 @rhythm_rebellion percussion kept our spirits & energy high video #3 Gail, @labour4palestinebcgeu public pensioner photo of tree: grateful for the persian ironwood tree protecting us from the sun today with their shade photos/videos @dcbreathes
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Thanks to everyone who came out today! Special thanks for the musical efforts of Barbara Shaw @randomoldlady_ Random Old Lady! And I somehow missed getting a photograph of Jay! He was there, as always! Retired Teachers Divest BC and supporters would like to congratulate the students and teachers of Gaza who recently completed their school year. Despite three years of genocide where tens of thousands of children were murdered, burned alive, shot in the head, maimed and mutilated, these brave children continued to attend classes under Israeli bombardment in makeshift classrooms unsure whether or not they would survive another day; their parents not knowing if they’d make it home. They were so eager to restore one of Gaza’s proudest accomplishments - decades of one of the highest literacy rates in the world! We salute the strength and resistance of the people of Gaza and demand that our pension funds are divested from the billions of dollars we are currently investing in global weapons companies! A healthy retirement should not be based on the mass killing of children and the environmental destruction of our planet! The Teachers’ Pension Plan is heavily invested in both. At the moment, 1000 active forest fires are scorching this country, disproportionately effecting Indigenous People, forcing them to evacuate their communities. Indigenous People are becoming refugees on their own land. Yet Carney is doubling down on fossil fuel production and military spending! Guess whose pensions are being used to fund this ongoing genocide and environmental disaster? We will not stop; we will not rest, until BCI divests! @davidebybc
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We’re moving our action! Monday July 20th @ 1 - 2:30pm David Eby’s Community Office (2909 W. Broadway). Rain or shine! On the stolen lands & beautiful lands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Skwxwú7mesh-speaking people. Since October, we have been gathering at the downtown office of B.C. Investment Management Corporation (BCI) a crown corporation, which manages the teachers’ pension fund and nine other public sector pensions. As a crown corporation, BCI’s mandate is directed by the Premier! This month we’ll visit him to demand he direct BCI to divest our pensions from all entities complicit in genocide and ecocide from the Salish Sea to Palestine. We know he can do it! Last year he instructed all government agencies to sever ties with U.S. companies to combat Trump’s tariffs. Join us to let David Eby know that “We Will not Stop; We will Not Rest; Until BCI divests!
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They built the United Nations on the ashes of genocide and promised the world ‘never again’. But when it happened again, they didn’t stop the genocides, they just stopped using the word that would force them to act.
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In the judicial review filed today, TWN argues that: Canada failed to discharge the duty to consult TWN before the VFPA issued the Permit, thereby breaching the honour of the Crown; and The VFPA’s decision to issue the permit was based on an unreasonable determination that the Second Narrows Dredging Works are not likely to result in significant adverse environmental effects under the Impact Assessment Act. https://twnation.ca/media-release-tsleil-waututh-nation-files-judicial-review-of-the-second-narrows-dredging-works-project/
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BC Physicians Against Genocide & BC Healthcare Workers For Palestine, today at City Hall. Retired Teachers Divest BC was present in solidarity.
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Just watched The Dissident, such an interesting documentary 😳 It’s about Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post journalist and Saudi insider/adviser who was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. Saudi Arabia was using Pegasus, that Israeli made hacking software, to get into the phones of people close to Khashoggi, reading their messages and tracking them before he was killed and his body was dismembered to get it out of the building. One of the men in the film, Omar Abdulaziz, is a Saudi nationalist who came to Canada as a political refugee and Saudi agents still targeted his phone with Pegasus while he was living here, and pressured his family back home through jailing them to try to silence him. Anita Anand is literally in Saudi Arabia this week talking trade and defence partnerships. Same regimes, same foreign spy tech used in our country, same silence when it’s convenient. It’s heavy, but it’s so worth watching. I Digitally borrowed it through Hoopla with my library card, totally free. If you’ve got a library card watch it, you need to see this one. And then use your privilege against the growing fascism.
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